On Cold Food and Kites in Tomb-Sweeping Day's Poems

cold drink and snack

Han Art in Tang Dynasty

In late spring, Chang 'an city is full of songs and dances, and countless flowers fall. The east wind of the Cold Food Festival blows on the willow trees in the royal garden.

As night fell, the palace was busy lighting candles, and smoke drifted to the house of the prince and the marquis.

Second, kites.

Tomb-Sweeping Day Beaver Crossing the Road?

Fan Chengda in Southern Song Dynasty

Sprinkle towels and rain, and wear a side hat.

Flowers bloom in the mountains and willows lie in the water.

Stone horses stand in the air and kites fly in the air.

After people dispersed, blackbirds were due west and east.

Cold food and kites are both customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

There is a custom of eating Youth League in Tomb-Sweeping Day in the south of the Yangtze River, which is a cold food custom. The Youth League uses the juice of the wild plant "Pulp Wheat Straw" to mix with glutinous rice flour to make round food. Qing Tuan is green as jade, with pleasant color, which is an indispensable table food in the Qingming period in the south of the Yangtze River.

Pan Rongbi, a writer in A Qing, wrote in "Ji Sheng at the Age of Emperor Jingdi": "When sweeping graves in Qingming Festival, men and women in the whole city flocked out from the suburbs, carrying boxes and wheels facing each other. Everyone brings a kite spool, and it will be better to put it in front of the grave after the sacrifice. " The ancients also thought that the Qingming wind was very suitable for flying kites.

Jia Qinglu said: "The wind of spring is from bottom to top, and kites rise because of it, so there is a proverb" Clear and clear ". "In ancient times, flying kites was not only an entertainment activity, but also to pray for letting go of bad luck and solving problems. When flying kites in Tomb-Sweeping Day, many people will write down the disasters and diseases they know on the kite, and then cut the kite string when it rises to the sky and let it float away with the wind, hoping to take away all the dirty air and bring good luck.